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What are Albertsons double coupons and how do they work?

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Several of you have recently asked “What are these Albertsons double coupons I’m hearing about?”

And I realized I’ve never done a post exclusively on the subject. Until today.

Land of No Doubles

A little preface. In many parts of this fine country, grocery stores will “double” manufacturers coupons automatically at checkout. So if you have a $0.50 off coupon, it will work out to $1 off at checkout. The manufacturer will reimburse the store $0.50 (the stated value of the coupon), and the store will give the customer the additional $0.50 discount as part of their cost in doing business. Sometimes, stores will even have these “coupon tripling” events. I can only dream…

If you live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest like I do, you live in a place couponers refer to as the Land of No Doubles(or LOND, for short). This means grocery stores in our neck of the woods ordinarily do not double coupons.

There are a few exceptions that I’m aware of:

Kmart. They occasionally will include Washington in their double coupon events, but it has been a long, long time.Safeway. Safeways in Oregon and SW Washington may double coupons. Not the Safeways in my area, though.Summit/Tukwila Trading. These sister stores (in Puyallup and Tukwila) generally put out two double coupons in their weekly ad.Albertsons. About once every other week, Albertsons will put out three double coupons in the ad that runs in the Sunday paper.

Albertsons “Twice the Value” Coupons

Now that you have a little context, let me show you what these puppies look like:

As mentioned, the most common place to find these is the one-page Albertsons flyer in your Sunday paper. At Albertsons, the weekly sale cycle runs from Wednesday through Tuesday. This means that the double coupons are generally good three days only: from Sunday through Tuesday.

Less commonly, we might see double coupons in the weekly ad. If that’s the case, they’d be good for seven days. Even less commonly, I’ve seen the double coupons in the main section of the paper, run as an ad. Regardless, I do a pretty good job of letting you know if we’re going to be getting them and if so, where to find them.

Finally I should mention these coupons get lots of names. They are officially called “Twice the Value” coupons, but I may often refer to them as “double coupons” or “doublers.” Bottom line, if you hear me mentioning getting your coupons doubled at Albertsons, this is exactly what I’m referring to.

How Double Coupons Work at Albertsons

It’s quite simple, actually. First, you must have the double coupons in hand. If you don’t get the Sunday paper, rest assured you can often find these flyers at Customer Service of your local Albertsons. There are usually three, but a couple weeks ago, we got four.

Next, take ANY manufacturer coupon you wish (up to $1 in value) and you are going to “pair” it with a double coupon.

Let’s take a real-life example from last week’s Albertsons list, shall we?

The pie crusts were $0.99 each. I shared with you a manufacturer’s printable coupon that would save you $1 when you bought three. So if you would’ve selected this deal, you would’ve headed to checkout with the following: three pie crusts, the $1/3 printable coupon, and one of the “Twice the Value” coupons.

The $1/3 printable coupon is from the manufacturer. Albertsons will submit this to them (in this case, Keebler) for reimbursement. The $1 from the double coupon is a discount the store is giving you.

Fine Print Stuff

You know I’m not going to leave out the fine print, right?

Coupons that are $1.01 or more cannot be doubled.

Stores are now doubling coupons even if they read “do not double.” This is because the store is choosing to give you the discount. They will not be asking the manufacturer to reimburse them more than the stated value.

“Buy one, get one free” coupons cannot be doubled.

Those great “off your next order” Catalina coupons cannot be doubled.

The coupons state “limit three per family shopping trip.” It’s each store’s perogative to define what that means. Some stores interpret that to mean you can only use three double coupons per day. Other stores interpret it more as “three per transaction” and will permit you to do multiple transactions. I ALWAYS ask.

So there you have it – Albertsons double coupons! Are they worth getting to understand? Absolutely in my book! These are one of the ways I end up snagging cheap – and even free – groceries.

By the way, we are getting double coupons this weekend. Check out my deals list for the week and see what you can snag for free!

I don’t know if this is in all areas but in the Salem, Or area the twice the value coupons are numbered and you have to use them in order… you can not use two that are marked #2, or a #1 and a #3.. You can use a 1,2,3 or a 2,3 etc… I ran into this last week 🙁 Just don’t cut the coupons and you should be fine;)

Do you have any idea why Safeway has doubles in Southwest WA and not further north (such as Tacoma-Seattle and farther north? I have written to them three times since August but can’t get an answer. Customer service hands it over to Marketing and I guess they file it in the ever popular circular file.

That is going to be an individual store’s perogative. The fine print does in fact state that coupons $1.01 or greater are not eligible. So if your store is doing it, they are going against what the coupon states. Again – it’s up to their discretion, but I can’t say that that will work for everyone. 😉

Actually, it seems like they DON’T run out too bad! (Knocks on wood.) I’ve gone in on a Monday or even a Tuesday before and gotten them. I don’t think it’s like the run on Safeway Thanksgiving Coupon Booklets we’ve been seeing. 😉

Thank you for your explaination on ‘double coupons’ because I’m new to couponing so I’m trying to learn everything there is to know! And you are correct, Safeway here in Vancouver, WA does offer double coupons and it must be because we fall under the Portland, OR market as we do for most things. Thanks again for all your help so far!

I’m new to couponing (started April 17th!) and was wondering how people stock up with a limit of 3 coupons per transaction or even per visit???? If I could get a food staple that would last for free or close to it, I would want to get enough to last me until it came on sale again. And, if there were a few items that were at deep discount with the doubler it seems I could be making a million trips or transactions just to get the deal. Albertson’s seems to be most peoples favorite store for couponing, but I don’t see how if it’s so inconvenient to stockpile when you get a great price.

Sorry for the long post, I’m just finding it hard to get much food to stock up on….but I have a million razors and toothbrushes already lol.

I have the same question as Sara…I asked at my recent visit to Albertsons if I buy all the the same item if the doubler will work on all the like items or just one…they said just one. Anyone else get told any different?

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